I Became a Gladiator in the World of Gender Reversal

46 – Criminal-3

“Think carefully.”

It was an ordinary bar. An ordinary bar too noisy and crowded for such secret stories to come and go.

However, the stories going on inside were not so ordinary.

Jerry glared at the people around her, then pushed her chair behind her and stood up.

“I don’t do that. Do you know what will happen if you get caught?”

“Well, let’s see what happens. At most, those old colossians at the Colosseum will do nothing more than fire you?”

It wasn’t the first time she had been through it. Since Daisy reformed the gladiator system, secret suggestions like this never ceased.

The more half-hearted gladiators like her, the more she was swayed by these temptations.

However, this proposal was a bit different.

“They say it’s money you won’t get even if you work for the rest of your life. Shouldn’t you cool it down and throw it away?”

That was not wrong. The money they promised was too much for Jerry, an ordinary gladiator.

“Ugh…”

“It’s not against the law, it’s something you can do as long as you put an iron plate on your face once. How long are you going to live in a cheap bar like this drinking only beer, huh?”

“Never.”

“It’s just that you just have to lose without showing it. Isn’t that what we’re asking for?”

“That’s a difficult request.”

Match fixing. To the gladiators, it was a sweet temptation that kept coming in.

It was unimaginable in the past Colosseum. Jerry was too young to see sword fighting back then.

It is said that most of the gladiators were confined to the Colosseum because they were slaves, so it was difficult in those days to even meet a gladiator to do match fixing.

Even if luckily a faction meets a gladiator, there were not many gladiators willing to accept such a match.

It was natural. Since the defeat of a gladiator was tantamount to death, there was no one who would accept such a match except for a few who had to give their lives to earn money for the bereaved family.

“…Illegal gambling?”

“It’s illegal. Since when did this country stop gambling. It’s just gambling that doesn’t follow the system of the Colosseum.”

Daisy also suffered from this problem at first. Her solution, she put forward, was to cut down on the money she could make from her gambling.

Only those who watched the sword fight were allowed to bet money, and there was also an upper limit on that money. Even if there are people who are really crazy about gambling and go to see gladiator fights, if they are leading a normal economic life, they will not easily go bankrupt.

Moreover, since he took a huge fee for the gamble, it was difficult for those who tried to manipulate the match to make a profit with a half-hearted bet.

Punishing gladiators involved in match-fixing without tolerance and raising the average annual salary so that they would not easily fall for temptation was also effective.

“…That’s insulting. I’m also a gladiator. I never do that.”

“Think about it carefully. Well, it’s not like we’re killing people or stealing money. It’s just that if you lose some strength in your body, money will roll in?”

There were few people willing to gamble by pouring huge amounts of money into a sword fight that they did not even see. However, this fight was different.

Evan’s existence was hugely popular, and the story that you could make money by predicting his victory or defeat was a very attractive rumor to gamblers.

Of course, there were people who tried to manipulate the results.

“Are you going to give up this opportunity? Are you sure you won’t regret it?”

“First of all, I am a person who can lose even if I fight with all my might.”

“A joke too.”

They laughed at her, giggling at her, not believing her jerry’s words.

“Okay. That’s it. No more.”

“That’s right, you’re being very strict. Be careful at night?”

A chilly atmosphere lingered. Jerry instinctively thought that she shouldn’t let her tail down now.

“If you’re thinking of dumping, jump on it.”

“No, they’re afraid of us, so they’re going to fight somewhere… Seeing how they wrap around Daisy like that, isn’t it because they gave her a body so she can fight Evan?”

“Damn it.”

Putting their rude behavior behind, Jerry walked out of her bar.

“Damn it…”

These days, more and more people are looking for her.

It wasn’t that the human named Jerry had changed. It’s just that she was lucky enough to have her first fight with Evan, and she earned that kind of rating.

When Marie fought Evan, there were still many people who did not believe in the fact that a man would appear in a gladiator arena, and Florence was too special a person to enter such a gladiator field at first glance.

However, she was just an ordinary woman. An ordinary gladiator who drinks at a bar and decides on a life plan by splitting his salary into small pieces.

This interest was not always welcome. I was a little bit angry too.

“That’s what makes it so special…”

I had no intention of disparaging Evan. He was a man of hard work, and his strength was not weak.

As a gladiator like him, he couldn’t be without respect.

“A man became a gladiator, that’s all…”

His salary was an open secret. He naturally tried to turn things around when asked directly, but among the gladiators there were many close friends with the Colosseum staff.

It was an overwhelming amount. Even if she worked for the next ten or twenty years, he was receiving a huge amount of money as his annual salary this year.

“Because of being a man…”

Slowly, jealousy rose.

He was an ordinary gladiator. Maybe, that might be the reason to praise and praise him.

A man who could live comfortably for the rest of his life jumped out of Selam on his own feet and jumped into his hardships to prove his worth.

However, Jerry saw him as a gladiator as much as he saw him as a man. On the contrary, he felt inferior because of it.

Between Gladiator Evan and Gladiator Jerry, there were too many walls.

What he is trying to do is true. However, he was not the only gladiator who tried that hard.

He didn’t even make that effort, it wasn’t even a few months.

If Jerry had worked so hard, would others have acknowledged it?

It couldn’t have been. No matter how hard Jerry tried, other people would have taken it for granted and normal.

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She wouldn’t have made her class for her or acknowledged that her challenge was beautiful and noble.

The class called Ballum itself was not unfair. Other gladiators had fought in his armor on a few occasions, but he was unable to control himself and collapsed.

He was able to move, but he was so heavy that he would be disgusted if he used swordsmanship while wearing it.

However, he couldn’t say it wasn’t a perk.

He has poor swordsmanship, but on the contrary, he has a huge physique and comparative strength.

Creating a class that didn’t even exist, and creating a class that was ‘not good at swordsmanship, but with a good physique and strong strength’ was itself a privilege.

“Ha…”

It became miserable. She must be a similar gladiator of a similar age, but that the mere fact that he and her swordfighter were in captivity made her envious enough to be tempted like this.

“It’s done.”

The cold air of the night street cooled her heart.

It was ugly jealousy. It wasn’t so crowded that she didn’t even know about it.

It’s just a complaint that I always do.

“Come to your senses!”

She knew he was strong, but she didn’t think she was weak enough to lose to her fledgling, who had just become a gladiator.

You just have to fight and win. Aside from complaints of this and that, the popularity of gladiators unknowingly affects the salary.

She had to get her attention at least to get her audience to like her, to think she was strong.

It’s a sword fight with that Evan. It was only natural that the audience seats were full. If you fight hard and win, your salary will go up a little bit more next year.

Besides, there were rumors that Evan treated the people he fought with more specially. Actually, Jerry didn’t believe the rumors.

But, at least he will remember her name. Funny enough, Jerry was a woman who could have rosy imaginations with just that.

Even Jerry, who felt inferior to him, couldn’t help but smile when she imagined him smiling at her.

“Really, even a guy like me… Is filthy ugly.”

Jerry thought she drank too much of her drink. There was no other way to explain this confused mind.

The amount of beer she drank wasn’t that great, but it was because she was so angry that she emptied her glass without even breathing.

“I have to work hard…”

Whatever it was, all she could do was fight. Because she was a gladiator.

Neither her friends’ requests to steal Evan’s belongings, nor the brokers’ proposals to deliberately lose her in the game were unheard of.

Even if Evan resents her for giving her special treatment, she doesn’t have the courage to go in front of Daisy herself and argue with her.

In the end, she had to fight. She does it the best way she can.

At night, ordinary people like her were walking around drunk.

Jerry soon became one of them.